The war between Hamas and Israel – and the potential for escalation to the wider region – has increased the uncertainty around the economic and financial market outlook, but in most scenarios is unlikely to generate a sustained hit to major asset markets. This Focus considers how that may change, and what the lessons from previous geopolitical…...
Markets are showing increasing stress, deteriorating market internals/breadth, and investors will advantage themselves with a game plan. Check out our latest video by clicking the link provided. This is our off-reporting weekend, but we intend to issue 3rd party research this weekend to keep investors in touch with analysis from in-and-around Wall Street. “When the…...
While there are plenty of events and fundamental data points worth considering, we find many remain fixated on the Fed’s next move and S&P 500 price. These factors appear to be dictating narratives and positioning. On that score, last week brought further risks to the consensus 4Q rally view. Fed is unlikely to come to…...
There was a great deal of concern for the manner in which the equity markets closed the week, 2 weeks ago; down Thursday and Friday trading sessions. As mentioned last week: “When the week starts strong, but ends weak, it often proves a difficult task to project forward, as weekly candlesticks show one thing, but…...
A Note: Structurally, the market needs breadth to improve this week, which demands improved performance from Equal-Weights and Small-Caps! Without such improvements, if not leadership, the market remains vulnerable to headline, downside risks. If you would like to watch this week’s State of the Market video, please click the provided link. Be on the lookout…...
Welcome to another trading week. In appreciation for all of our Basic Membership level participants and daily readers of finomgroup.com content, we offer the following excerpts from within our weekly Research Report. Our weekly Research Report is extremely detailed and has proven to help guide investors and traders during all types of market conditions with…
Despite another positive weekly performance by the S&P 500 (SPX) this past trading week, it didn’t really feel that way based on the declines in the final 2 trading sessions of the week, and especially with the declines in the large-cap/Growth areas of the market and Nasdaq (COMPQ). When it was all said and done,…...
In lieu of our regularly scheduled State of the Market video analysis, this week we offer a general public video to review some of the market conditions and macro developments since August. Oversold conditions and a traditionally weak September market offered certain signals for investors to consider, while the economy continued to “chug along.” (video…...
Fiscal constraints limit policy response at a time when cyclical risks persist. Market breadth reflects this dynamic as the S&P 500 defends key technical support. We share takeaways from our roundtable with industry analysts, our latest consumer survey and our Dividend Playbook report. Fiscal Dominance Remains on Center Stage…We continue to think the current backdrop…...
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